Orazio Riminaldi

Orazio Riminaldi, Ascension of the Blessed Virgin, dome of the Cathedral of Pisa

Orazio Riminaldi (1586 – 10 December 1631) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Riminaldi was born at Pisa. He was a pupil of the painter Ranieri Borghetti, then Aurelio Lomi, and finally Orazio Gentileschi. He painted in a Caravaggist style in Rome, and returned to Pisa, ultimately choosing a muted style. He painted the Martyrdom of St. Cecilia previously in the Palazzo Pitti, there is a copy in the church of St. Catherine of Pisa. He painted a Samson slaying the Philistines (1626) and the Assumption of the Virgin (completed posthumously by his brother Girolamo) for the cathedral of Pisa. He died of the plague in 1630.

References

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum. ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. pp. page 147. http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters. 
• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 386. http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1. 

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Name	Riminaldi, Orazio
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Date of birth	1586
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Date of death	10 December 1631
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